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Former South African referee of the Year, Daniel Bennett’s 2014 Fifa World Cup dream has been shattered after he was ruled out through injury. Bennett was selected as support referee for the world football spectacle taking place in Brazil from...

More than 500,000 citizens fled in fear as extremist militants overran Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, the International Organization for Migration said Wednesday. The group, whose teams have been monitoring the plight of those caught in the midst of the...

A delegation of Thai military commanders travelled to China on Wednesday for talks on regional security and joint training amid Western reproach of the army's seizure of power in a coup last month. General Surasak Kanjanarat, Thailand's de facto defence...

An Egyptian court sentenced leading activist Alaa Abdel Fattah to 15 years in jail on Wednesday for violating a protest law and on other charges, his lawyer said, a move likely to outrage human rights groups. Abdel Fattah, 33, became...

Thousands of South Korean police and prosecutors raided a sprawling religious compound for a second time on Wednesday in their search for an elderly businessman linked to a ferry disaster that reduced the nation to tears. Helicopters flew overhead as...

Japanese airbag maker Takata Corp's safety crisis deepened on Wednesday after the world's biggest carmaker Toyota Motor Corp recalled 650,000 more vehicles in Japan, and the supplier cautioned further fixes may be needed. The latest recall brought to 6.5 million...

The European Commission said on Wednesday it had opened three in-depth investigations into tax decisions affecting Apple, Starbucks and Fiat Finance and Trade in Ireland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg respectively. The probes focus on whether decisions by authorities in the...

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd will fully acquire mobile browser firm UCWeb in the biggest merger in Chinese internet history, upping the stakes in its battle with arch-rivals Tencent and Baidu. Alibaba's purchase of the one-third of UCWeb it didn't...

I was in a café in Barcelona when I heard the news: Facebook acquires Whatsapp for $19b! The fact that the acquisition story circulated within the same news cycle as the civil unrest in Ukraine was weirdly ironic.  Jan...

Out of the blues, in the last week of May 2014 till the first week in June, the Nigerian Military has waged unrelenting attacks against the print media in Nigeria. Same time, the chronically ineffective and professionally inefficient National...